Chapter 10: Chapter 9

The weather is starting to get colder in Tokyo, which was a sign that the days were going to become shorter and the nights longer. I used to love this time of year back in California, but I've grown to despise it. There were numerous reasons for my hate of cold weather, but one of them being the rain. The rain reminded me of James, which meant his death anniversary was coming up. I tried to not think about it, but I received so many messages and calls from friends and families that they made it hard to ignore.

Other than the reminder of my dead husband, my life in Japan has been better. Me and Cho hang out more and talk a lot about our personal lives. I've unquestionably opened up to her greatly in a longer period of time. She seems to be understanding of my situation now, nevertheless I know she still doesn't respect me and Hinata dating. I never questioned her about her hate for him, and so I've avoided the subject of Hinata all together with her.

As for me and Hinata, well I think we're good. He still doesn't share his personal life, but I don't blame him, being in the Yakuza I'm sure there are plenty of things he can't tell me about-and I rather not hear about it. Still, I'm sure not everything is gang related. There has to be some stuff he can tell me. I mean I barely just found out his birthday and that was because it was last week. He jokingly told me "I wasn't a very good girlfriend." Whatever, he's not perfect either, but I still do like him a lot. Speaking of liking him a lot, we still haven't had sex yet. I'm totally content with it, but I do feel bad because he's been so patient with me. Whenever we start kissing and it starts heating up between us, I start to panic and back out. I'm really glad I found someone who was so calm with me, if I had met me, I would've walked out a long time ago.

Being that the James anniversary is coming up soon, Hinata told me he wanted to take me to a resort with a spa, to take my mind off it. I told my mom about the trip and she thought it was a lovely idea. I guess if mom approves, then I'll go for it. I'm looking forward to the trip and haven't actually done anything like this before with Hinata so we'll see how it goes.

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Now when I thought of a spa resort, I was thinking of some place in Tokyo, but just a few days before leaving, Hinata told me it's in Okinawa! That's a whole plane ride! And the place was way too fancy for me! This made me less excited and more nervous about the trip. He kept telling me not to worry about the cost, but how could I not? We haven't even been dating for a year yet!

This changed everything and now I needed to figure out something else to pack instead of my usual clothing. I know he was just trying to surprise me, but I don't need luxury-I prefer to just be comfortable.

On the day of leaving for Okinawa, we both met up at the airport. I had checked beforehand how long the flight would take and it was longer than I expected, close to 3 hours. I don't mind airplanes, but it's just the fact that I'm with Hinata and I'm completely leaving my comfort zone. This is not what I signed up for. I wanted to yell at Hinata, but he seemed so proud of himself that I couldn't bear to hurt his feelings. I just needed to play it cool this weekend. That was all I could have hoped for.

Once we got ourselves situated on the airplane, I immediately put my headphones in and forced myself to fall asleep. My nerves were all over the place and I didn't want Hinata to notice. As the music started to fill my head, it didn't take long for me to start feeling drowsy. As the plane started to take off, I felt Hinata's hand resting upon mine. I smiled to myself with my eyes still closed and waited to land in Okinawa.

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